Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-23
san FRANCISCO AND VICINITY.

Superintendent McCord, of the Suffer-
street cable railroad, has returned from the
East.
Chris Buckley will leave in May next for
a tour in Europe He will be accompanied
by his wife and physician.
A complaint has been filed against SUI
pervisors Bush and Knorp, charging them
with crookedness in Office.
Lie. Morehouse, of the State Board of
Equalization. was run down in San Lean
dro on Sunday by horseman and severely
injured.
A number of local fruit importers have
purchased the steamer Jesse ii. freeman,
Intending to have her enter the Hawaiian
trade as a fruit carrier. She is vessel OF
$50 tons.
No new construction has been under
taken by the California and Nevada Mar
row-gauge Company of late, and 1t is be-
lieyed that the line from Oakland to San
Pablo is about to change owners.
Three new cases of diphtheria were re,
ported at the Health Office on Monday and
eight yesterday, including three IN one
house on Sanchez street. No deaths have
been reported from this disease since the
| 10Th instant.
On April 9th the spring meeting of the
Pacific Coast Blood Horse Association Will
be inaugurated over the Bay District
course. As near as can be ascertained the
horses are in good condition and rapidly
shaping up into their finest form.
Whitehead & Co. have made the highest
bid for pooling privileges at the spring
meeting of the Blood-Horse Association.
They bid 90 per cent. OF their earnings,
Il L. OffprpH tn
a racing association. Henry Schwartz "
Co. offered III per cent, and Killip & Co.
offered 49,
The will of the late Charles Lux has
| been admitted to probate in San Mateoo
county. The estate is declared to exceed
| $500 600 in value. After making ample
provision for the heirs of deceased, it be-
aueaths various sums, from 81, 800 to Sl5,-
| COO TO the different benevolent institutions
of the State.
| The construction gang of the Mackay-
Bennett telegraph line arrived in West
| Oakland on Sunday night and disbanded
They completed the line as far as Duns-
muir, Siskiyou county, where connection
was made with the construction gang which
| had been working southerly on the line OF
the California and Oregon Railroad.
Now that the Southern Pacific has Sc
| cured control of the San Joaquin and
Sierra Nevada Railway it is not likely that
the railroad projected from Barenda, on the
main line of the Southern Pacific, into the
| Yosemite valley will be constructed, 1t be-
| ing deemed easier to push the Sierra Ne
vada road into the valley from the north.
There is a rush of returning tourists at
| the ticket office of the Central Pacific Rail
road. Nearly all are exchanging the re-
| turn trip portion of their tickets, bought
| for passage over the southern roads, for
| tickets reading via the Central Pacific,
Union Pacific and Denver and Rio Grande
and their Eastern connections to the points
of destination.
Judge Sullivan has denied plaintiffs mo-
| tiOn for a new trial in the case OF Thomas
| Hunt VS.. the Southern Pacific Railroad
| Company. The action was to recover 81
500 for personal injuries sustained by
plaintiff, who was employed as brakeman
on the road, while coupling cars, and the
Court gave judgment for 500.
DR. H. D. Cogswell on Saturday decided
to Board of seven Trustees the real estate
necessary to establish his contemplated
Poiytechnical College in San francisco
| The property is worth about 81 ,ueo,eoO
The object of the school is to afford boys
| and girls OF the age Oh IA years III LUIS
State an opportunity TO acquire a practical
| training in the various industries by which
it is possible to make comfortable and
| honorable livelihood.
Referring to the coming race between
Harry Wilkes and Oliver X, the Post
SAYS: As regards performances, the
horses are on a dead level of equality; but
there is a general belief that Harry Wilkes
has always had bit in hand, and that
| will make him favorite in the betting 1t
will be the biggest betting race we have
had for years. Large parties are coming
from the East, and the booksellers have
already many commissions to execute.